Tex. Prop. Code § 112.001 : PROPERTY CODE — TRUSTS — TEXAS TRUST CODE: CREATION, OPERATION, AND TERMINATION OF TRUSTS — CREATION, VALIDITY, MODIFICATION, AND TERMINATION OF TRUSTS — CREATION — Methods of Creating Trust TEXT PDF A trust may be created by: (1) a property owner's declaration that the owner holds the property as trustee for another person; (2) a property owner's inter vivos transfer of the property to another person as trustee for the transferor or a third person; (3) a property owner's testamentary transfer to another person as trustee for a third person; (4) an appointment under a power of appointment to another person as trustee for the donee of the power or for a third person; or (5) a promise to another person whose rights under the promise are to be held in trust for a third person. Tex. Prop. Code § 112.001 Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3332, ch. 567, art. 2, Sec. 2, eff. 1/1/1984.